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Vehicle Systems Stability Engineer

Foster City, California

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

The Vehicle Electrical Systems Integration team delivers a validated vehicle including firmware (FW) and hardware (HW) packages to our robot platform. The team is also the first stop for triaging, identifying, and investigating CAN, LIN, and electrical issues in the field and during vehicle bring-up.

As a Vehicle Systems Stability Engineer, you will be on the frontlines keeping our robots healthy.  You will be responsible for the initial review of issues related to vehicle domains (ECUs, chassis, electric powertrain, HV charging, thermal system, brakes, steering, suspension, and lighting as examples). You will be responsible for reviewing vehicle level CAN logs, investigating the issue, providing insight into the potential root cause, and then working with the responsible team to deliver a solution.  You will also drive teams to identify actions that could prevent an issue from occurring again. This is a highly cross-functional role as you will be working with various Hardware and Firmware engineering teams, operations teams, and the vehicle and program management office.

We are looking for an engineer that is passionate about electric vehicle architecture, autonomous driving, has strong problem-solving skills, and has a commitment to deliver on time.

 

Responsibilities

  • Provide the initial issue triage and system analysis of field and bring-up issues for RnD fleet
  • Review the CAN log data, investigate to determine the probable responsible system(s) and if possible the root cause
  • Provide enough evidence to justify next steps in issue resolution
  • Drive for decisions on interim containment and permanent corrective actions, as appropriate
  • Document your work in the applicable JIRA tickets and methods in Confluence
  • Work with issue owner to identify how this issue is prevented from occurring again
  • Work with the module or component owner and suppliers, as needed to communicate your findings to drive root cause investigations
  • Report on issues identified, next steps, help needed and flag risks to program with appropriate mitigation plans.  This includes supporting and reporting at working level and leadership level meetings
  • Identify potential improvements in system behavior and diagnostics

 

 Qualifications

  • BS or equivalent in an engineering discipline, EE or Mechatronics preferred
  • Experience: 5+ years in automotive engineering 
  • Experience designing or testing vehicle systems (electrical and/or mechanical)
  • Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to quickly get up to speed on multiple complex systems
  • Experience with electrical and vehicle network architecture (CAN and LIN)
  • Experience with hands-on electrical troubleshooting (DMM, Oscilloscope, electrical schematics, Saleae Logic Analyzer, HIL sytems, etc.)
  • Experience with CAN, LIN and A/D measurement system setup (Vector, Memorator, Inca, Intrepid, dSpace, IPEtronic, CSM, Deweysoft, etc.)
  • Knowledge of vehicle engineering or software validation process, 8D, FMEA, problem-solving methods
  • Excellent writing skills, organization, verbal communication, leadership skills, and deadline-driven
  • Track record in managing multiple cross-functional projects simultaneously
  • Experience with JIRA and Confluence
  • This role will be 100% on-site


Bonus Qualifications

  • Experience in infotainment/connectivity/telematics and working knowledge of automotive ethernet
  • Python programming and building automation tools
  • Grafana and other data analysis toolsets
  • Diagnostics development

 

Salary Range: 

  • $100,000 - $120,000 per year
  • The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience 

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